Trace a financial statement back to the voucher (and forward again)

Every figure in your financial statements comes from entries, and every entry comes from a voucher. In SynkriaOps, this thread can be followed in a few clicks, without exporting or recalculating: this is financial lineage. You need it whenever someone asks “where does this amount come from?”: auditor, banker, tax inspector, management.

Top down: from the statement to the voucher

Open the statement: Accounting → Balance sheet or Income statement, or the financial statements page (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, notes).
Click the line you are interested in. The Drill-down panel opens on that line (its reference, for example “BI” for customers).
Read the panel’s three tabs (see below).
Click an entry, then View source document: the voucher shows in the panel, with its lines, journal and status. Back to entries returns to the list.
For the account’s full detail, click View in the General Ledger: the ledger opens filtered on that account and fiscal year.

The panel’s three tabs

Tab	What it shows	When to use it
Accounts	The accounts feeding the line, with debit, credit and balance, and the total	Check that no account is misclassified or missing
Entries	Those accounts’ entries: date, voucher, journal, account, description, amounts	Find the transaction that explains a change
Formula	For a computed line (a total, a subtotal, net income): the formula and its components, each linking to its own line	Understand how a total is built

The top of the panel sums up the total, the number of accounts and the number of entries. For a very active line, the panel shows the first entries and says so (“Showing the first 100 of 1,240 entries”): the general ledger then gives the full list.

From a note

The total of a note that maps unambiguously to a balance sheet or income statement line opens the same panel. You move from the note to the statement line, then to accounts and vouchers.

Bottom up: from the voucher to the statement

The reverse path measures the effect of a transaction, or checks that it is correctly classified.

You start from	You go to	How
A voucher	The accounts it moves	Its lines, in the voucher detail: click an account number to open its profile
An account	Its profile: balance, SYSCOHADA definition, normal direction	Click the account number in the ledger, trial balance or chart of accounts
The account profile	The statement line it feeds	The Feeds section of the profile (e.g. Balance sheet BI Trade receivables): one click opens that line’s detail
The account profile	The trial balance or ledger of that account	The profile’s links

For a customer, supplier, tax or bank account, the line depends on the direction of the balance for the year: a customer in debit feeds BI, a customer in credit feeds DI (advances received). The profile says so.

Other ways into the general ledger

The general ledger opens already filtered from:

the general and subsidiary trial balances (click an account or a contact);
a customer or supplier profile;
an analytical category;
the app’s global search: an entry found opens the ledger in list view, on its date, with the voucher in detail.

Why it matters

In a tax audit or an audit, every amount must be backed by vouchers. An amount you cannot break down is a disputed amount.
At year end, an unexpected change in a line is understood by opening its entries, not by redoing calculations in a spreadsheet.
For management, a figure presented in a meeting must be explainable on the spot.

Only posted entries feed the statements: a draft voucher does not appear in any of these paths.